@goa/content-type

@goa/content-type is a fork of Create and parse HTTP Content-Type header according to RFC 7231 Written In ES6 And Optimised With JavaScript Compiler.

yarn add @goa/content-type

Table Of Contents

• Table Of Contents
• API
• parse(header: string|http.IncomingMessage|http.ServerResponse): ContentType
  • _goa.ContentType
• format(obj: ContentType): string
• Copyright

API

The package is available by importing its named functions:

import { parse, format } from '@goa/content-type'

parse(
  header: string|http.IncomingMessage|http.ServerResponse,
): ContentType

Parse a Content-Type header either from a string, or a request or response objects.

import('http').IncomingMessage http.IncomingMessage

import('http').ServerResponse http.ServerResponse

_goa.ContentType: The content-type interface.

Name	Type	Description
type*	string	The type of the content-type.
parameters*	!Object<string, string>	An object of the parameters in the media type (name of the parameter will be lower-cased).

import { parse } from '@goa/content-type'

const res = parse('image/svg+xml; charset=utf-8')
console.log(res)

const asRequest = parse({ headers: { // as IncomingMessage
  'content-type': 'image/svg+xml; charset=utf-8',
} })
console.log(asRequest)

const asResponse = parse({ getHeader(header) { // as ServerResponse
  if (header == 'content-type')
    return 'image/svg+xml; charset=utf-8'
} })
console.log(asResponse)

ContentType { parameters: { charset: 'utf-8' }, type: 'image/svg+xml' }
ContentType { parameters: { charset: 'utf-8' }, type: 'image/svg+xml' }
ContentType { parameters: { charset: 'utf-8' }, type: 'image/svg+xml' }

format(
  obj: ContentType,
): string

Format an object into a Content-Type header. This will return a string of the content type for the given object.

Source	Output
import { format } from '@goa/content-type' const res = format({ type: 'image/svg+xml', parameters: { charset: 'utf-8' }, }) console.log(res)	image/svg+xml; charset=utf-8

Copyright

Original work by Douglas Christopher Wilson and contributors.

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